The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Tuesday invited Awami League president and prime minister Sheikh Hasina to an iftar party she would host on August 4.
Khaleda, also the opposition leader in parliament, will host the iftar in honour of the leaders of different political parties at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre.
The BNP chief also invited AL general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, also the LGRD and cooperatives minister, to the iftar party.
BNP assistant office secretary Abdul Latif Joni and agriculturist Shamimur Rahman Shamim went to Hasina’s Dhanmondi office and handed over the invitations to AL deputy office secretary Mrinal Kanti Das, BNP’s press wing official Shamsuddin Didar told the news agency.
Mrinal Kanti Das told the news agency that invitation to iftar was a religious culture. Mutual relations between political parties develop through such invitations, he added.
-With BSS/New Age input
